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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing that confuses me, though, #4, I thought that Wilson had already stopped admitting any direct OOB applicants, and the only OOB students entering 9th grade at Wilson today are coming from one of the feeders? That would seem to solve the problem for the long term, because the spots at the feeders are limited so IB will gradually replace OOB as, for example, Hardy gets more popular among IB families. I doubt there are so many people IB for Wilson who didn't send kids to Deal, Hardy or Oyster? Who are all these people and where do they go to MS?[/quote]
I don't know if this is very clear - what I am trying to say is, if we fix the size of the MS feeder classes now, and if Wilson has enough room for those feeders, that would seem to solve the problem, no? because there aren't many people who are IB for Wilson who don't send kids to one of Deal, Hardy or Adams. Maybe some at the odd charter but not many.

So what will happen is IB gradually replace OOB at the feeders over a number of years. [/quote]
If I understand you correctly, I think you're misunderstanding #4. Item 4 above was just reflecting designated feeder populations, and NOT the current in-bounds areas for Wilson that aren't part of a feeder middle school.  In fact, there are lots of people who are in-bounds for Wilson who are OOB for Deal/Hardy/Oyster/Adams.  Take a look at these two maps showing the middle school boundaries and the Wilson boundary ...
http://www.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-Middle-Schools-September-2009.pdf
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-High-Schools-September-2009.pdf

Here are neighborhoods that are in-bounds for the feeder middle schools, but OOB for Wilson: Colonial Village, Shepherd Park, 16th Street Heights.

[b]Here are neighborhoods that are in-bounds for Wilson, but OOB for the feeder middle schools: Dupont Circle, West End, Foggy Bottom, Penn Quarter, Southwest.[/b][/quote]

Sorry, thanks for responding - it was this important fact in bold that I was missing. That's a lot of population density.

But it begs the question, what are these people doing for mS? I would have guessed that they were the ones lotterying in to the various feeders (ES and MS) for Wilson.

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